President Donald Trump is nominating former Fox News host and interim US Attorney Jeanine Pirro to a full term as the top federal prosecutor in Washington, DC, according to a White House news release, according to CNN.
Her nomination for a four-year term has been sent to the
Senate, the release says.
She was named
to the position on an interim basis last month after Trump’s first
pick, Ed Martin, faced what appeared to be insurmountable
pushback from Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Pirro, a longtime Trump ally, is a former judge and district
attorney for Westchester County in New York. Until being tapped by Trump, she
had not held a position in the justice system since 2005, when she left
the district attorney’s office and began her career on television.
CNN’s KFile on
Monday reviewed Pirro’s radio shows and found that she has repeatedly endorsed
criminal investigations into Trump’s perceived political enemies, including
federal prosecutors, local officials and judges involved in his various legal
cases.
In addition to her attacks on federal law enforcement and
the judiciary, Pirro has spent years promoting false and inflammatory claims.
She downplayed the January 6 violence as a political “narrative,” calling for a
Capitol Police officer and DOJ officials to be investigated.
Pirro also boosted unfounded claims that the 2020 election
was stolen and was one of several hosts named in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against Fox
News. The lawsuit was later settled by Fox News for more than $787 million.
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